(FILES)This file photo illustration taken on March 23, 2018 shows Facebook logos on a computer screen in Beijing. A US consumer protection agency said March 26, 2018 it has opened an investigation into Facebook for potentially failing to live up to its promises on privacy and possible violations of a consent decree.The Federal Trade Commission confirmed news reports from last week that it had opened an inquiry over the harvesting of Facebook data on tens of millions users of the social network by the British consulting group Cambridge Analytica. / AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS ASFOURI
MENLO PARK, United States: Facebook announced it would begin rolling out changes to how it handles private data this week to comply with forthcoming EU rules, with European residents seeing the measures first.
The social network, which has been rocked by disclosures about hijacking of personal data on tens of millions of its users, said it will start implementing “new privacy experiences” to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which become effective May 25.
